Maxine Waters Quotes
I could not remove myself from this debate about Trump. I could not abide his indecency. I could not live with the way he treated other people.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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If you're talking about the narrow issue of public assistance, I would like to see us move to a more healthy system. But until we come up with certain guarantees - for example, guaranteed jobs where mothers move off welfare - I support welfare very strongly. The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.
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I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.
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The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.
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I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
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A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.
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I could not remove myself from this debate about Trump. I could not abide his indecency. I could not live with the way he treated other people.
